Main entry:

Ravetz, Alison.

Title & Author:

Model estate : planned housing at Quarry Hill, Leeds / Alison Ravetz.

Publication:

London : Croom Helm [for the] Joseph Rowntree Memorial Trust, 1974.

Description:

xvi, 251 pages : illustrations, map, plans ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes indexes.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-245).
The city and the poor: inherited constraints and contradictions of municipal housing -- Working-class housing and town planning in Leeds up to 1940 -- The genesis of Quarry Hill Flats -- Experimental building and its consequences: the Mopin system in practice -- Social functions of the model environment: the estate populations -- Community by design: forms of social life on the model estate -- Social causes of physical change: the devolution of the model estate -- Private lives and the model estate -- conclusions: methods, assessments and futures of model environments.
Also issued online.

ISBN:

0856641650
9780856641657
0856641605
9780856641602
085664160X

Subject:

Housing England Leeds Case studies.
Housing
England Leeds
Grande-Bretagne Civilisation.
Medical Humanities.

Form/genre:

Case studies

Added entries:

Joseph Rowntree Memorial Trust.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 24853
Call No.: W789; ID:88-B11111
Status: Available